Factors affecting burnout and compassion fatigue in psychotherapists treating torture survivors: Is the therapist's attitude to working through trauma relevant?

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-75

  Deighton, Russell McKenzie ^a,d   Gurris, Norbert ^b   Traue, Harald ^c  

^a Carnmillar Institute   (Australia)

^b Institut für Soziale Gesundheit Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d Carnmillar Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TORTURE SURVIVOR;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRIA; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; EMPATHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; SWITZERLAND; TORTURE;

EID: 33947715907     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20180     Document Type: Article

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